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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Sautet’s film, it treats abortion, motherhood, work and female solidarity with clear-eyed warmth, following ordinary lives through major choices rather than forcing melodrama.
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Why this pick
A tougher and darker companion piece about a woman asserting practical independence under social pressure, anchored by lucid detail rather than moral simplification.
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Why this pick
For the same finely calibrated performances and adult emotional restraint: relationships unfold through hesitation, small gestures and what people cannot quite say.
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Why this pick
Its unsparing yet compassionate attention to family strain, ageing and personal reinvention shares Sautet’s trust in behavioral detail and unresolved feeling.
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Why this pick
It offers another French study of adult desire and emotional consequence, driven by precise observation of social routine before passion destabilizes it.
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01 / THE STORY
Finding herself pregnant at the age of 39, Marie has an abortion without telling her lover Serge, because she has decided she must live without him. Her mother disapproves and so does Gabrielle, one of her workmates. When made redundant, Gabrielle's husband Jérôme takes an overdose but Marie and Gabrielle save his life. To save his job, Marie looks up her ex-husband Georges, who says he will find Jérôme a place. This he does and, when his lover is away, Marie sleeps with him. However, Jérôme's confidence is gone and Georges has to let him go. When he admits this to Marie, she leaves him. After Jérôme in total despair kills himself, Gabrielle moves in with Marie, who finds herself pregnant again, this time by Georges. Going to see him, she realises there is no future with him and says nothing about her state. This time, she tells her workmates, she is going to have and bring up her baby.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Marie
Georges
Serge
Gabrielle
Jérôme, mari de Gabrielle
Esther
Anna
Francine
